Cieux Ouvert Quotes & Sayings

I had a hunch. Officially, scientists don't work on hunches. We work on hypotheses and observations and plenty of evidence. Hunches don't get you research funding, tenure at your university, or access to the world's largest telescopes. But a hunch was all I had. — Mike Brown

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment. — Georgia O'Keeffe

But anyone who only expects thinking to give assurances, and awaits the day when we can go beyond it as unnecessary, is demanding that thought annihilate itself. — Martin Heidegger

From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it. — David Michod

She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus — Lev Grossman

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life. — Howard G. Hendricks

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. — Vincent D'Onofrio

I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the fulfillment of that promise. — Israel Zolli

I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate. — Condoleezza Rice

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something. — Fiona Apple

In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor. — Eugene Kennedy

Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven. — Rick Warren

We're all scared most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren't. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it. — Emma Hooper

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions? — Criss Jami